re-purposing www-rdf-dspace@w3.org to SIMILE research project

I'd like to announce a minor change to the purpose of this list.

www-rdf-dspace was originally created to discuss application of RDF within
DSpace, an open-source institutional repository and digital asset management
system developed collaboratively by MIT Libraries and HP.

A more recent and related effort, named SIMILE, will focus on creating a
platform, derived and extended from the current DSpace system, that will
provide a much richer set of capabilities with respect to metadata and
information interoperability.  SIMILE aims to reduce the friction between
personal, community/departmental, and institutional/enterprise information
environments.

You can read more about SIMILE at:
<http://web.mit.edu/dspace-dev/www/simile/>
Collaborators include HP, MIT Libraries, MIT Lab for Computer Science, and
W3C Semantic Web Advanced Development.

A core strategy to establish the SIMILE platform is to fork a
research-oriented variant of the current DSpace system, and extend the
platform through application of RDF and semantic web techniques.  It is a
further objective to be able to deploy capabilities developed and
demonstrated in SIMILE research, as appropriate, through the network of
institutions that have adopted and deployed the current DSpace system.
Because this is the case, the DSpace and SIMILE principle investigators, in
conjuction with W3C, have decided to continue to use www-rdf-dspace, but
re-purpose it for public discussion of progress and issues in the SIMILE
project.

We welcome feedback on this change in purpose.  Please direct feedback to
<mailto:www-rdf-dspace@w3.org>.

If you would like to unsubscribe from www-rdf-dspace based on this change in
purpose, please <mailto:www-rdf-dspace-request@w3.org> with Subject:
unsubscribe

Best Regards,

- Mick

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Mick Bass


External Engagement Manager
HP Labs / MIT DSpace Program
Hewlett-Packard Company
Building 10-500 MIT, 77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02139-4307


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Received on Friday, 19 July 2002 13:10:49 UTC